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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:51:07 -0800
From: Nathan Angelacos <nangel@nothome.org>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] OpenVPN Multiple Tunnels
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On 12/09/10 14:28, Steve Fink wrote:
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I believe understand the methodology, but it is in direct contrast to
> the OpenVPN documented methodology.
>
> For example under the OpenVPN documented methodology of having the
> single init.d script (openvpn):
>
> You can issue: openvpn start and all tunnels will come up
> You can issue: openvpn stop and all tunnels will come down
> You can issue: openvpn restart and all tunnels will be restarted
> or
> You can issue: openvpn client restart and only the tunnel named client
> is restarted.
>
> Under the (I'm assuming here) Gentoo methodology of having essentially
> one init.d script for each tunnel you cannot start/stop/restart all of
> the tunnels at once you would have to issue each command separately.
>
> Am I correct here?
>
In my experience, yes.

you /can/ start all tunnels with one command: "rc"
e.g.:

/etc/init.d/openvpn stop
/etc/init.d/openvpn.SanFrancisco stop

then to start them both, just run "rc"

It will find that those two are not running, though they should be for 
the current runlevel, and will start them.

But, you are correct, I haven't found a way of stopping all tunnels at 
the same time.

OTOH, 99% of the time I want to stop/modify/restart just 1 tunnel at a 
time, so it hasn't been a problem here.

> BTW, I apologize in advance. I am not at all familiar with Gentoo,
> please forgive my ignorance.

NP - it was strange to me at first too.  I'm not an expert in "The 
Gentoo Way", either. :)


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